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The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games (MIN and GB are only shown for tiebreakers against each other).
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be

The following charts seek to answer the following question: If these two (or more) teams finish with the same record, who wins the tiebreaker?
Notes and assumptions:
No possibility of future tie games.
Tiebreaker winners are as they would be if the teams were tied at the end of the season,

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Before becoming rap mogul Suge Knight, he was defensive lineman Marion Knight. Undrafted out of UNLV, Knight was at the Los Angeles Rams training camp during the 1987 preseason and played 2 games as a replacement player during the NFL players strike.
Enjoy!
Year
Team
Games started
Games played
1987
LAR
0
2
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The Bears ran 35 plays in the 4th quarter in last week's game against the Titans. Is this a record?
No, but it's close. Most of the following, like the Bears, were failed comebacks from large deficits.
Most plays in a quarter, since 1983
All in the 4th quarter unless noted
Team
Date
Plays*
Opponent
Non-plays**
Notes
St. Louis Rams
12/10/1995
40
BUF
3
San

1. Anthony Rizzo, Chicago Cubs, September 28, 2016; April 16, 2017; and April 17, 2017.Rizzo, normally the first baseman, was playing in to protect against the bunt with a runner on 1st and the pitcher up, while normal second baseman Ben Zobrist was holding the runner on at the first

What follows is an NFL-style gamebook for the 222-0 Georgia Tech-Cumberland game that happened 100 years ago this October.
Notes:
The play-by-play is almost entirely taken from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution game story as seen on this archived page from Cumberland's website.
Unknowns and obvious errors from the original play-by-play:
The play-by-play

Wondering whether 2015 had an unusual number of quarterback injuries? Or why Joe Namath missed so many games? Or just why the Browns start a random quarterback in Week 17 every year?
The following team charts detail every starting quarterback change in the NFL since 1950.
AFC East
Buffalo Bills
Miami

A potentially controversial sequence of events occurred late in the second half of the Packers-Falcons game when it appeared that two different players possibly threw punches that could’ve have warranted ejections.